In case you are not familiar with MIX , it is a conference from Microsoft focusing on the collaboration of design and development. Admittedly, the sessions tend to favor the developer, but there is always excellent design and UX content. There was an open call for presentations this year and the community...

I was introduced to MVC as a pattern for Web development through Castle MonoRail . From there I studied a bit of Ruby on Rails (not enough) as well as the general philosophy of 37signals . As I mentioned before, I thought I was moving away from Web development. However, the dive into ASP.NET MVC that...